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United States Patent | 5,675,738 |
Suzuki ,   et al. | October 7, 1997 |
A video information server system which makes it possible for a party to remotely control any of a plurality of video information server apparatuses holding a plurality of types of video information different in type from each other through a communication network and thereby easily obtained desired video information, the system being provided with a video information server center including a plurality of video information server apparatuses and a center control equipment for selecting one of these apparatuses in accordance with a request from a request terminal and sending the video information of the request and the central control equipment being provided with a common management file for recording various data for converting requests from terminals compatible with all of the plurality of video information server apparatuses into requests corresponding to the individual apparatuses.
Inventors: | Suzuki; Youko (Kawasaki, JP); Hatta; Hiroyuki (Kawasaki, JP); Udagawa; Mamoru (Kawasaki, JP); Niimi; Hiroshi (Kawasaki, JP); Ozawa; Masayuki (Kawasaki, JP); Tanaka; Kenji (Kawasaki, JP) |
Assignee: | Fujitsu Limited (Kanagawa, JP) |
Appl. No.: | 568178 |
Filed: | December 6, 1995 |
Feb 08, 1995[JP] | 7-020362 |
Current U.S. Class: | 709/219; 370/486; 725/91; 725/92; 725/93; 725/109 |
Intern'l Class: | H04N 007/173 |
Field of Search: | 348/6,7,12,13,14,16,17 455/3.1,4.1,4.2,5.1,6.1,6.3 |
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5410343 | Apr., 1995 | Coddington et al. | 348/7. |
5488411 | Jan., 1996 | Lewis | 455/6. |
5508732 | Apr., 1996 | Bottomley et al. | 348/7. |
5521631 | May., 1996 | Budow et al. | 348/7. |
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